Guidelines on Depositing Publications in Repositories

Scholarly output is archived and made accessible on repositories. They guarantee the long-term accessibility of research results, which is not guaranteed by providing them on personal and institutional websites.

A distinction is made between institutional and disciplinary repositories. Institutional repositories are built and managed by universities and research institutions for their members directly. Disciplinary repositories are specialized in a particular discipline and often offer subject-specific know-how or special services (e.g. visualization tools). 

TU research members can use TU Berlin's institutional repository – DepositOnce. On DepositOnceyou can publish texts (e.g. dissertations, reports, second publications) as well as research data (e.g. tabular data or audio and video files). Our self-archiving services can assist you in checking the legal requirements

We expressly recommend disciplinary preprint servers for certain publications (e.g. research data or preprints), although DepositOnce can be used for this purpose as an alternative as well.